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Posted By: brian p

I can't claim a first tobacco card, but I can tell what I got with the first $11.00 I spent toward vintage cards. At the first baseball card show that I ever attended, in 1981, I purchased the following Pre-WW2 cards (at the table just inside the door): a T206 Matty dark cap, a T206 W. Johnson pitching, a T205 Breshnahan, a T205 Wheat (Broadleaf), and a E98 Cy Young, all for $11.00. That was just about all the collecting money I had brought. They are in F-G condition (still got them all), and they set the tone for my future in collecting cards in lower grade.

Brian